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About Licia Cianetti
I am an Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Elections, Democracy, Accountability and Representation (CEDAR), which launched the People, Power, Politics podcast. I research questions of democracy, autocratization, institutional and regime transformations, at the intersection between comparative politics and comparative public policy.Licia Cianetti is Associate Professor in Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham and Deputy Founding Director of CEDAR.
NBN Episodes hosted by Licia:
February 16, 2026
How Corporate Lobbyists are Capturing EU Institutions
Brussels is full of lobbyists. Over decades, big companies have been using their financial might not only to influence EU policies but even to shape h…
January 30, 2026
All You Need to Know about Russian Politics Today
Host Licia Cianetti talks to two Russian experts, Vladislav Gorin and Alexandra Prokopenko, about the state of Russian domestic politics today. As Rus…
November 26, 2025
What is Happening in the Mediterranean Right Now – And Why You Should Care
Since 2014 more than 32,000 people have died trying to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. As the EU and its member states have been increasingly…
July 31, 2025
How Late-Stage Neoliberal Capitalism is Breaking Democracy
For a long time many (although by no means all) scholars saw the relationship between capitalism and democracy as mutually reinforcing: economic compe…
July 17, 2025
Has the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown?
It has been 10 years since the Paris Agreements of 2015 and – despite the initial enthusiasm – global investment in fossil fuels has increased and we …
June 12, 2025
Ethnic Minorities, Political Competition, and Democracy
Democracy scholars often assume that ethnic homogeneity is good for democracy. Politically mobilised ethnic minorities, the assumption goes, stoke div…
May 27, 2025
How Do Autocrats Stay in Power?
In this episode Licia Cianetti talks to Johannes Gerschewski about his book The Two Logics of Autocratic Rule (Cambridge UP, 2023). We discuss how au…
October 31, 2024
Is Democracy Failing to Deliver?
A common argument to explain the ongoing global democratic crisis is that democracy has failed to deliver safe and prosperous lives for its citizens a…
August 30, 2024
What is Going on with Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe?
After being the posterchild of democratization, today Central and Eastern Europe is often seen as the region of democratic backsliding. In this episod…
April 24, 2024
Social media’s business model is changing democracy, and not for the better
Democracies in Europe and the world over are grappling with the challenges posed by social media. In this episode, Charlotte Galpin and Verena Brändle…
March 13, 2024
Authoritarian Practices Go Well Beyond Authoritarian Regimes
Authoritarianism is not something that happens only within the borders of authoritarian regimes. In this episode, Marlies Glasius talks with host Lici…